MIDWORLD-Alan Dean Foster
Read this very good book , then say that at least SOME of the ideas in it werent used for this movie!
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Yup! and don't forget Fantastic Planet from 1973 as well, the movie.
"Unicorn, mermaid, vampire,sorceress! No name you'd give her would surprise me i love whom i love"
Sooo...?? Unless any character in that book or in Pocahantas or Dances with Wolves or Fern Gully were called, Jake Sully, Neytiri, Grace Augustine, Selfridge or Quaritch, you idiots don't have a leg to stand on.
shareI don't understand your comment. You understand that inspiration does not mean copying? That it doesn't mean you repeat the names of characters?
I have no idea if Midworld was an inspiration to Avatar. But I can certainly see it. There are similarities that are obvious. There are also numerous differences.
If I ever saw Fantastic Planet I have no memory of it. But it the brief synopsis on IMDB would indicate it might be.
Inspiration involves taken things, movies you've seen, books you've read, scenes you've seen, locations you've been too, experiences you've had and mixing them up, taking some things out, adding other things, stirring in you own ideas and emotions and producing something new.
This is how a lot of art occurs. If you are not an artist yourself, you may not understand it. But to those of us that are, it is an everyday process; which is not to imply its easy.
And yes, I can see where Dances with Wolves and Fern Gully could easily be inspirations as well. Likely even primary ones. That doesn't invalidate the process.